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PEN/Bare Life Review Grants
Funding opportunity. Deadline: 2027-06-15
- Type
- Grant
- Organizer
- PEN America
- Deadline
- 15 June 2027 (estimated)
- Where
- New York, United States
- Compensation
- $5,000
- Disciplines
- fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation
About this opportunity
The PEN/Bare Life Review Grants offer two $5,000 awards to immigrant and refugee writers for literary works in progress. This grant supports fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry manuscripts by foreign-born writers residing in the U.S. or writers living abroad with refugee/asylum seeker status. Submissions for the 2027 cycle are open until June 15, 2027.
Who can apply
- foreign-born writers based in the U.S., and writers living abroad who hold refugee/asylum seeker status.
- Those born in the United States are ineligible.
How to apply
The application link and the full call are available to members, together with every other open opportunity ranked around your practice.
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